Jodie Foster came out without really coming out, and suggested she was retiring from acting without exactly saying so, in a long, breathless and rambling speech at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards.
The Vice President held a meeting with the NRA, and the result is the NRA will not only lobby vigorously but unleash the mother of all membership drives.
I'm pretty even-handed on most issues, but as a Seattleite, I cannot resist reporting as authoritatively as I can the latest prediction by New York Times oracle Nate Silver.
In a vote that took place at a time when the only people watching CSPAN were me and Mark Knoller, Congress swept away a bunch of its own artificial booby traps in a decisive bi-partisan vote.
Among those who followed the recent gay marriage votes very closely was Reverend Gene Robinson of New Hampshire who became the first gay Bishop in the Episcopal Church.
Over the weekend NRA chief Wayne La Pierre endorsed the idea of armed and trained officers in every school, paid for by the federal government. And people called him crazy.
All over the country, the guns are flying out the door. Not just any guns, but as you might expect, the very guns the President wants to ban on the grounds that in the wrong hands they are just too deadly.
Tomorrow the NRA issues its first statement about the Newtown massacre - it promises to "offer meaningful contributions." But don't think they'll support any kind of weapons ban.
Groups that want more gun control think this is the moment - that the Newtown massacre finally is the kind of outrage that will not so easily fade from peoples' minds.
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